Bohn added that Rice was “a lot different than what I might have expected, to be honest; in the sense that she’s real. What you see maybe from a political side you might not see as much of the realness that you want to. On the golf course you see the real person.”

Rice was dressed in Stanford gear to honor the university at which she now teaches political science. She’s been taking golf lessons there from the assistant coach of the Cardinal women’s golf team, Kathryn Imrie, for about 18 months.

“She’s serious about it,” said Imrie, a Scot. “That why she is who she is.”

Rice played solidly early, including draining a 30-foot putt on the par-5 second. But the beaning of the spectator seemed to rattle her, and she contributed only one red number to her 2-under team score with Bohn. That put them nine shots behind the 11-under posted by Scott Langley and his partner.

“I had some good holes and some bad holes,” Rice said. “I’ll just forget the bad ones and remember the good ones.”